Awards

Law Week Colorado is an award-winning independent newspaper. We reserved this page for bragging rights. Awards listed below were granted by the Colorado Press Association as well as the Society of Professional Journalists. For additional information on the stories below, Contact Us.

2016

2015 Society of Professional Journalists

Feature Page Design

Second Place: “A Look Under the Dome”

Legal: Enterprise Reporting

First Place: “A Story About Life”

Second Place: “A Question About Alms”

Third Place: “Guardrails in the Sky: The Legal Horizon of Drones”

Info Graphic Design

Third Place: Capital Punishment in Colorado

Health: General Reporting

Second Place: “Medical Malpractice: A Look Under the Cap”

2015

2014 Society of Professional Journalists

Legal: General Reporting

First Place: “Bare-Bones Budget Causes DA Skeleton Crew”

Third Place: “Asylum Treacherous For Artesia Immigrants”

Public Service

Third Place: “Is Hypothetical Pot Repeal Possible?”

Legal: Enterprise Reporting

Second Place: Juvenile Life Without Parole Series

Front Page Design

Third Place: Intellectual Property

2014

2013 Society of Professional Journalists

Legal: General Reporting

Second Place: “Hot On The Money Trail”

Third Place: “Third Time’s No Charm”

News Feature

First Place: “A Case For Asylum”

Third Place: “Hope Springs Eternal”

2011

Breaking News

First Place: “Colorado Supreme Court Answers: Are Kids Clients?”

General Reporting

First Place: “Wal-Mart granted Retrial”

2010

News Feature

Second Place: “A Tale of Two Lawyers”

Public Service

Third Place: “Making A Case: With Retention Effort Afoot, Who Speaks For Justices?”

Arts & Entertainment Reporting

First Place: “Supreme Court Leaves Mural Hanging”

Legal General Reporting

First Place: “Prosecutors Can’t Use Word ‘Lies’ to Describe Lies”

Second Place: “A Question of IQ”

Third Place: “No Body, No Murder?”

Legal Feature Writing

First Place: “Home of the Brave”

Second Place: “Road To Redemption”

Third Place: “Right To Remain Frozen”

Legal Investigative/Enterprise Reporting

First Place: “So Hard to Say Goodbye”

Second Place: “Mullarkey Out‚ Who’s In?”

Third Place: “Cortez Controversy”

Multimedia Story

Second Place: “Denver Justice Center: A Tour”

Feature Photography

First Place: “Home of the Brave”

2009

Circuit Media journalists have been advised by the Colorado Press Association that they have won awards in at least two categories — Public Service and News — in the association’s 2009 Better Newspaper Contest.

2008

Investigative/Enterprise Reporting

First Place: “Grading the Graders”

Judge’s comment: “An ambitious, well done series on articles on evaluating Colorado judges. The reporting is in-depth and balanced. Law Week Colorado deserves kudos for devoting important resources of staff and time to produced this series of articles and should be proud of the results.”

Second place: “The First 50”

Legal Affairs Reporting, News or Feature

First Place: “Legal Persuasion Renews Absinthe Sales”

Judges’ comment: “A well-written article about a little-understood alcoholic drink and how some attorneys–who have a vested interest as absinthe producers–played a role in making it available again. The reporter addressed a rarely covered topic–attorneys who are also businessmen and how the two areas can actively intersect.”